Quotes By Clifford Geertz

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.